Randy Moss Talks Brady, The Patriots’ Mystery & The Bucs
March 18th, 2020
Randy Moss has spent time training with Mike Evans in recent offseasons, and he’s also a guy who reveres his years in New England playing with Tom Brady.
Moss now works for ESPN TV calling it straight like only he can. He admitted yesterday it’s hard for him to swallow Brady leaving New England, but Moss wants the world to be certain that Brady remains an all-Pro player, just one who was lacking weapons last season.
The weapons on the Bucs? Moss is happy for what the Bucs receivers and “a decent tight end” will mean for his old buddy.
Per Moss, the Patriots didn’t offer that last season and Brady needs more than just one target to throw to.
Moss agonizes over a popular sports argument, he said, whether Brady made Bill Belicheat or vice versa.
“Who is responsible for those six rings? You know, people sayin’ it’s Bill [Belicheat], people sayin’ it’s Tom. And now we get an opportunity to see who was the man behind those six championships. So, it’s kind of crazy,” Moss said. “You know, I’m going to continue to say it’s kind of crazy because I never thought that a guy like Tom Brady would leave a place like New England.”
Was Brady just hit by the business side of football or Belicheat’s ego? Moss isn’t sure.
As for winning a Super Bowl in Tampa, Moss said he doesn’t see the Bucs as a Super Bowl contender, but that could change.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:16 pm
lmao @ [Belicheat] injection
March 18th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
…is this deal going to happen today???? Rick “all doomed” Stroud is saying may takes days….
they just cant stand bucs fans to be happy…… being worried sell more for them… pfff
March 18th, 2020 at 2:21 pm
Randy Moss the other GOAT!!!
Brady gets to throw to CG 12? aka Godwin the Machine and Mini-Moss Mike!!!!
This move is going to permeate through our entire organization. Everyone just got better, coaches, players, janitors, you name it!
Even if Brady is only 90% of the player he was he still makes everyone else around him better and prepare and push that much harder.
Just sayin, if Michael Jordan was my teammate I would literally never dog a drill or loaf on a play out of sheer respect. Brady is of that same ilk (that one was for Ira).
March 18th, 2020 at 2:22 pm
I still hate Randy Moss – he’s the only WR that could ever consistently beat that all-time great Tampa 2. John Lynch could sit back there and just knock Moss’ head off and the guy would still go up the next play, jump over everyone and catch the ball as he was being drilled. We played against TO, who did absolutely nothing against us. We played again Rice, who got some yards in the SB on a busted coverage, but did nothing. We played against Issac Bruce who did nothing. Etc etc etc – only Moss was ever a problem.
So I hate him, mainly because the Bucs needed a WR and it was expected that Moss would fall them… He didn’t. GRRR… still makes me mad thinking about it.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:24 pm
So teams have either signed/Resigned or traded for
Foles
Brady
Bridgewater
Mariota
Keenum
Cousins
Rivers
Prescott
Tannehill
Chase Daniel
Jeff Driskel
Yet the former #1 overall pick who lead the league in turnovers since he was drafted, who is a member of the 5,000 yard club, Banned from Uber, 5th Pro Bowl Alternate and great divider of this fanbase with his dumb play can’t find a job…
Guess we now know what the rest of the league thinks of Jameis.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:27 pm
That’s funny Rod, the way you talk about Moss is how I think of Steve Smith. I just hate that dude, his attitude, his demeanor, and how he tore up the Bucs with Greg Olson like regularity. I still respect the way he played the game though, the dude was a dog.
Moss is my favorite player of all time, idk how that came to be but I followed his career from a rookie and I cant remember a more electric receiver. He was AJ Green, Hopkins, and Julio all wrapped into one guy, it was crazy.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:34 pm
A lot of people don’t see us as a superbowl contender yet because the last sight of the team was the quarterback throwing a pick 6 in a winnable game against another team with a losing record
March 18th, 2020 at 2:35 pm
@#1pick QB
Reports out now says Chargers are discussing waiting for (a gimpy, worn out) Cam Newton to be released…
Cam Newton instead of the Bucs castoff..
March 18th, 2020 at 2:41 pm
Alaskan – Steve Smith was great, but he was – in my mind – more a pest player (which isn’t the insult it sounds like). Also his big years didn’t come until after the Bucs all-time great window had passed. He was a pain in the rear, but his production came off having to defend that Carolina run game. He was hard to cover, quick, and just annoying, but I never felt like you could not shut him down if you absolutely had to. The issue was Carolina was run first, and so Smith just got chances to either catch in a zone and run, or play one and one where he was just too quick.
With Moss, you could literally double team him, and he’d just jump and catch the ball, over everyone. Could be even three people there, it didn’t matter. No one else could do that against those Bucs defenses. The way they stopped Moss was to get the QB before they could throw the ball – that was the only way to stop him.
When Moss was with the Pats we saw what he could really do. He wasn’t even nearly as good as in Minnesota at that point, and yet still had 1500 yards and 23 TDs, which is just amazing. If Moss had been motivated his entire career, he would have easily rewrote the record book – and playing 2 games a year against the best passing defense of all time, that’s a big deal.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:54 pm
Brady had cut his own pay to make the team better and that didn’t happen last season. It is not hard to see him move on. It violated his trust in the coaching staff.
I hope they start on the right foot and Brady can have a say in the offensive weapons usage. He knows how he works best and I think it is Leftwich who has to adjust.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:58 pm
I hope I don’t have to see that grease ball Bob Craft all the time now. Billionaire wears the same ugly ass, put together suit from Men’s Warehouse every game.
March 18th, 2020 at 2:58 pm
rod
i love moss….
but you’re right he torched us time and time again….
the WR i hate the most is antonio freeman….lol….during those BATTLE OF THE BAYS days, he torched us a ton….
GO BUCS!!!!
March 18th, 2020 at 3:03 pm
#1 Pick QB 2 Cent Brain
“So teams have either signed/Resigned or traded for
Foles
Brady
Bridgewater
Mariota
Keenum
Cousins
Rivers
Prescott
Tannehill
Chase Daniel
Jeff Driskel
Yet the former #1 overall pick who lead the league in turnovers since he was drafted, who is a member of the 5,000 yard club, Banned from Uber, 5th Pro Bowl Alternate and great divider of this fanbase with his dumb play can’t find a job…
Guess we now know what the rest of the league thinks of Jameis.”
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#1 post of the day
March 18th, 2020 at 5:56 pm
So if anyone wants a different perspective do what I did. I went to the Boston Globe this morning.
Reading through the sports opinion writers they all tag BB as the villain in the deal and trashed Kraft secondarily for not stopping this.
IT WAS BB’s ego that drove this deal. All Brady dared to do was sing a little Aretha…R E S P E C T find out what it means to me. BB continued to diss and play hardball and TB12 finally had enough.
Now one could say sports writers who cover the Pats are jaded and loathe BB who has been searching for a serviceable personality for decades. He’s not an easy guy to like and he’s not an easy guy to play for because that means you have to spend time with the jerk.
The “opinion” writers in Boston believe BA is the man…he will be as demanding as Belichek when it comes to on the field but has a great personality off the field. These guys obviously like Brady and feel sorry that he was stuck with an obnoxious ahole.
BTW…IMO BB was a defensive genius who blew it big time in Cleveland as HC for five years with a LOSING record. He goes to NE and loses big time…and then hits the lotto with Brady in the sixth round.
The Pats dynasty was built on BB”s great defenses and Brady offensive genius.
So who needed whom the most? That’s one of those great sports bar debates.
March 18th, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Maybe Brady can wear 12a and Godwin can wear 12b…
March 18th, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Is it just me or does anybody else think cam Akers is the perfect versatile RB for Brady? I say we draft him 2nd or maybe 3rd if he falls
March 18th, 2020 at 10:01 pm
98
No not just you! Steal in the 3rd if he last that long…as for the second don’t know if we’ve earmarked that for TB12’s backup/successor or not…if not I’d be down with Akers.